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Where were the first domesticated olives?
Was the Olive tree domesticated once or twice? New Phytologist has been weighing the evidence for both arguments recently, but the answer remains elusive.
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All is number? A faster way to analyse plant root images
A paper in JXB offers new way to analyse root networks. Reducing a root system to a graph might look like a step away from reality, but it allows for a lot of rapid high-quantity analysis of root systems.
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AoB Blog (and others) at #IPMB2015
The 11th IPMB Congress was be held 25–30 October 2015 in Iguazú Falls, Brazil, bringing together leading scientists in this area.
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What Nature Does for Britain by Tony Juniper
If you want to make the case for Botany’s importance anywhere in the world, then this is the book for you.
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Beyond the deficit model, how science communication puts nature in the frame
A science communication paper shows that framing matters when people are asked about climate change fixes. The public has a natural preference for nature. However when people don’t know what is being discussed, do they really prefer nature, or a natural appearance?
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Registration for the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Volatiles 2016 is open
There will be a Gordon Research Conference on Plant Volatiles January 31 to February 5 2016 on Plant Volatiles chaired by Martin Heil and Dorothea Tholl.
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A simple wildflower garden with a surprising success
A garden planted to attract bees and insects has starting is now visited by something else.
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Transient dynamics improve population projections for orchids
A combined approach of asymptotic and transient dynamics expands the understanding of possible population changes for a rare epiphytic orchid.
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Endemism Hotspots as Climate Change Refugia: A Special Issue of Annals of Botany
Centers of endemism have long been of interest to biogeographers, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists, and more recently to conservation biologists, who often recognize them as biodiversity
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Adapting to life on land
This study examines pectins to understand the changes in cell wall structure associated with the transition from algae to land-plants.
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Night life on the beach
Different reproductive strategies are important for avoiding pollinator competition between sympatric populations of two Silene spp.
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Fancy a cool slice of watermelon?
This study uncovers the north-eastern African origins of the dessert watermelon and concludes that it was is domesticated there over 4000 years ago.